"Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Art Quotes #Past Quotes #Boredom Quotes

“An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.”

Source : Orlando Aloysius Battista (1957). “How to Enjoy Work and Get More Fun Out of Life”
“At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.”
“All men desire to be immortal.”
“She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone.”
“You're going to react to a painting in a way that the painting demands you react.”
“No one can get to the Right of me.”
“I lived in Detroit until I was six. My older sister was living with us, and she listened to the Ohio Players and Stevie Wonder, so I grew up listening to stuff like that.”
“Advertisers like that because they want you to feel their product isn't normal - this perfume isn't normal, this set of lingerie isn't normal. The irony is that they are appealing to normal people to buy the product because they want them to identify with an exotic life that they don't lead.”

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